Dallas Justice the Real Story of Jack Ruby and His Trial

Maurice Camillus Carroll was born in Rutherford, New Jersey on May 24, 1931. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1952. He worked for numerous New York and New Jersey newspapers over four decades including The Passaic Herald News, The Jersey Journal, The Star-Ledger of Newark, The New York Times, New York Newsday, The Herald Tribune, The Journal American, and The New York Post.

While working for The Tribune in 1963, he wrote a first-person account of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Carroll also covered Ruby's murder trial and conviction. He co-wrote Dallas Justice: The Real Story of Jack Ruby and His Trial with Melvin Belli. He also wrote Accidental Assassin: Jack Ruby and 4 Minutes in Dallas.

After retiring from newspapers, he taught journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York University, Montclair State University, and Quinnipiac University. In 1995, he became the assistant director of the opinion poll run by Quinnipiac University. He died from colon cancer on December 6, 2017 at the age of 86.

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